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THE<br/>
<span class=large>SONG OF SOLOMON</span>
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CHAPTER 5
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Their song of love and affection continues.
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I am</span> come into my garden, my <sup>a</sup><a href="song/5/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Song. 4: 9.">sister</a>, <i>my</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="song/5/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Song. 4: 8.">spouse</a>: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
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&#182; I sleep, but my heart waketh: <i>it is</i> the voice of my beloved that knocketh, <i>saying,</i> Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, <i>and</i> my locks with the drops of the night.
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I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on?  I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
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My beloved put in his hand by the hole <i>of the door,</i> and my bowels were moved for him.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;5 
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped <i>with</i> myrrh, and my fingers <i>with</i> sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
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I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, <i>and</i> was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
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The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I <i>am</i> sick of love.
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&#182; What <i>is</i> thy beloved more than <i>another</i> beloved, O thou fairest among women?  what <i>is</i> thy beloved more than <i>another</i> beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
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My beloved <i>is</i> white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
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His head <i>is as</i> the most fine gold, his locks <i>are</i> bushy, <i>and</i> black as a raven.
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His eyes <i>are</i> as <i>the eyes</i> of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, <i>and</i> fitly set.
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His cheeks <i>are</i> as a bed of spices, <i>as</i> sweet flowers: his lips <i>like</i> lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
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His hands <i>are as</i> gold rings set with the beryl: his belly <i>is as</i> bright ivory overlaid <i>with</i> sapphires.
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His legs <i>are as</i> pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance <i>is</i> as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
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His mouth <i>is</i> most sweet: yea, he <i>is</i> altogether lovely.  This <i>is</i> my beloved, and this <i>is</i> my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
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